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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:49 PM

Expression Studio Overview

Due to a scheduling issue, our webcast for Expression Studio Overview didn’t take place. If you’d like to learn more about Expression Studio itself, check out this link. To see a number of webcasts on the Expression products, check out virtual labs, and
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:58 PM

Win7 RC to be available to MSDN subscribers on April 30

Crazy. As soon as I decide to write something about Beta to RC to RTM , the very same day we announce that a RC (release candidate) image will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30 . It will be more broadly available on May 5. I was
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Friday, April 24, 2009 10:03 AM

SoCal Code Camp – June 27 & 28 – UC San Diego

Registration has begun for the SoCal Summer Code Camp in San Diego. Also, if you’re interested in speaking at the event, you can sign up to be a speaker as well. Code Camps are community driven events where developers come and learn from their peers.
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Friday, April 24, 2009 9:56 AM

Win7 Beta to RC to RTM

While up at Cisco’s Toolapalooza, we had a number of people ask us about Windows 7 , from how stable is it to how can I get access to the beta to when will it be available. I can’t attest for all the people using Windows 7, but on one of my test systems,
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:44 AM

Ghosts of Computer Companies Past

With the announcement of Oracle to buy Sun MicroSystems , I started to think about all the computer companies that where powerhouses back in the day and unless you’ve been around for a while, you might have only heard about them in an “introduction to
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:00 AM

VSDB 2008 GDR R2 now available

The QFE (quick fix engineering) rollup release for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (General Distribution Release) is now available. Check out this blog article for how to get it and set it up. Read this blog article to learn what fixes
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Monday, April 13, 2009 10:18 AM

Webcast: Brian Harry - Visual Studio Team System 2010, April 30th 2009

The Linked .NET Users Group ( http://www.lidnug.org ) which has over 20,000 uses on LinkedIn and targeted for professionals using or interested in Microsoft .NET technologies and the C# language in particular, will be holding a virtual user group meeting
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:42 AM

Brian Harry shares some insight on VSTS 2010

If you’re interested in knowing more about the next release of Visual Studio (Pro, Team Editions, and TFS), I recommend you check out Brian Harry’s blog article on Team System 2010 Overview . He’s started to provide a bullet list of items in key feature
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:33 AM

SQL Server 2008 SP1 is available

I’ve been a bit out of touch with the announcements of this week. So in case you haven’t heard, SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was made available on Tuesday (April 7). So in addition to it including all of the released hot fixes and minor updates
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:41 AM

Free ALM Catalyst Workshops – Maximize your VSTS Investment

During the month of April, May, and June, Microsoft will be running a series of workshops via LiveMeeting on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). There is continual pressure for IT departments to accomplish more
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:15 PM

The Digital Lifestyle

Shortly after I joined Microsoft, I got to attend an internal event called TechReady. Think of TechEd and PDC for Microsoft employees. During one of the keynotes, they introduced a video showing of Microsoft’s vision of the Digital Lifestyle. It was a
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:31 AM

SharePoint Designer is now free!

I know…has we made the announcement yesterday (April 1st), no one would have believed us. So it was announced today on the SharePoint blog page. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx
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